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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOHN ROBERT ALDERMAN AND THE LATE DR. MARK ZEBROWSKI

A VELVET BORDER PANEL

MUGHAL INDIA, 17TH CENTURY

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A VELVET BORDER PANEL
MUGHAL INDIA, 17TH CENTURY
Of narrow rectangular form, with an elegant recurring floral spray rising from a gadrooned baluster vase, a register of floral scrollwork above and below between two thin bands of swaying leaves interspersed with flowerheads, on red ground, mounted, stretched
The panel 15 3/8 x 72in. (39 x 183cm.)

Special notice

All sold and unsold lots marked with a filled square in the catalogue that are not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the day of the sale, and all sold and unsold lots not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the fifth Friday following the sale, will be removed to the warehouse of ‘Cadogan Tate’. Please note that there will be no charge to purchasers who collect their lots within two weeks of this sale.

Lot Essay

In the same way as the Safavids, the Mughal courts produced velvet carpets woven in coloured silks on a metal-thread ground. The borders were always woven separately and attached later. The most impressive of all is probably that in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Stuart Cary Welch, India, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, no.136, p.207). The present border was very probably made for a velvet floorspread similar for example to one in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Court Life and Arts under Mughal Rule, exhibition catalogue, London, 1982, no.223, p.88).

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